VE9AK -
Montreal, Canada

VE9AK was an experimental station, which started
broadcasting television in 1935, using equipment made by Peck Television Corp. Here are pictures from the
October, 1935 issue of Radio News. The station operated on 41 mHz
with 100 watts of power and broadcast from the roof of a hotel in
Montreal. Broadcasting was done with both 60 and 150 lines.

In 1938 Rogers Radio
Broadcasting Co. Ltd. was granted an experimental license for a frequency
modulation (FM) for VE9AK. A 50-watt transmitter, built at the Rogers
Radio Tube plant, operated in the original FM band - around 42 mHz. A
vertical antenna was mounted on the roof of the CFRB studio building at
37 Bloor Street West in Toronto - with a height of only 60 feet
above ground level. It is not known if the original VE9AK in
Montreal was related to the station in Toronto.